Improvement in car-couplings



2? WITNESSES 6m W INVENTOR I Q. LZo'm/ ATTORNEY UNITED STATES PATENTOEEIoE.

EZRA WILSON, OF NEW CASTLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN CAR-COUPLINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 214,223, dated April 8,1879; application filed March 8, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known-that I, EZRA WILsoN, of New Castle, in the county ofLawrence and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and valuableImprovement in Oar-Couplings; and I do hereby declare that the followingis a full, clear, and exact description of the construction andoperation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawing,making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures ofreference marked thereon.

The drawing is a representation of a perspective of my improvedcoupling.

This invention has relation to improvements in car-couplings; and thenature of the invention consists in certain novel combinations of theparts of the coupling, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the annexed drawing, the letters A A designate the ordinary chambereddraw-heads of two adjoining cars, designed to be used with the usualcoupling-link B and pin (3. Upon the head A is erected an upright, D,forked at its upper end, and affording bearin gs at its upper end to averticall y-vibratiu g lever, E. From the power-arm of this lever isflexibly suspended a draw-pole, a, and in the forked weight end thereofis pivoted to vibrate vertically a flat rod, 1), to the lower end ofwhich is flexibly secured the pin 0.

Upon the top of the head A, in rear of the pin-hole 0, is a guide-plate,F, having in its front edge an angular recess, 07, the angle of which isjust behind the said hole, and the sides bounding the said angleextending to the front beyond the said hole, as shown in the figure.

Depending from the lever E is a metallic bail, J, of the following form:A stout wire is secured at each end to the said lever, carried down indiverging branches c, looped around pins or headed bolts 6, and thencecarried across the front under the link, all as shown in the figure.

The operation is as follows: The train-hand, standing out of the line ofthe draw-heads and bunters, if such are used, seizes the draw-pole a,and, drawing down upon the same, raises the coupling-pin above the topof the adjacent drawbar, and at the same time actuates the liftingbailto raise the coupling-link, and causes it to enter the draw-head. Thisbeing accomplished, the end of the pin is directed by theangularly-notched guide'plate F to the pinhole a, so that if the pole atbe released the pin will fall through the pin-holes and link, and thusefiect the coupling. The uncoupling is bad by drawing down upon the saidpole at and lifting the pin out of the draw-head.

In the end of pole a is an elongated slot designed to receive a pin onthe end of a car, and allow cars to be brought together without injuryto the coupling-pins. When thus engaged the pin is up above the heads;consequen tl y they may come together withouttouching the same.

VVhatI claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a car-coupling, the combination, with the draw-heads A A, the pins 0,and link B, of the upright D, the lever E, fulcrumed in said upright,and provided, respectively, at its power and weight ends with thedraw-pole a and swinging rod b, flexibly secured to pin 0, the bail J,secured to said lever and extending under the link, and an angularly-notched guide, F, arranged and operating as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witnesses.

EZRA WILSON. Witnesses:

F. M. WHITNEY, GEO. W. MILLER.

